Carrol Quigley had a great lecture series: "Public Authority and the State in the Western Tradition:

A Thousand Years of Growth, A.D. 976 - 1976”

In it, one of the themes is how technology determines the means of controlling other humans. Unfortunatly the recordings are utter shit. It has transscripts, but those are not 100% complete.

For what its worth:

Http://www.carrollquigley.net/Lectures/Oscar_Iden_Lectures_Introduction.htm